BOLDNESS
To be bold is to be
brave, gallant, fearless, heroic, adventurous , courageous or enterprising.
It is a great asset for
every person in the battlefield of life. More often than not it results in
victory.
Those who are not bold
are timid, lack initiative and hesitate to take up any adventurous task.
It is not false, but genuine boldness
which achieves desired resultS. False boldness produces shameful failure.
It is right to say that even God lends a hand to
honest boldness.
It is also true that to
be bold implies a willingness to get things done despite risks.
In the great adventures
of life risks are unavoidable but they should not discourage us. We should be
bold enough to go ahead despite dangers and pitfalls.
THE English poet and literary critic John Dryden (1631-1700) says ‘‘Fortune befriends the bold.”
To
conclude, here is a balanced opinion about boldness by the English essayist Francis Bacon
(1561-1626) : “Boldness is ever blind,
for it sees not dangers, and inconveniences; whence it is bad in council though
good in execution.—The right use of the bold, therefore, is, that they never
command in chief, but serve as seconds under the direction of others.—For in
council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they
be very great. “
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G.R.Kanwal
27th April 2024
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